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MINDFLOW ANNOUNCES CATEGORY-IN-A-BOX(tm) FOR QUICK SOURCING RESULTS

Available commercially for nearly three months, Category-in-a-Box has already earned a significant following, helping numerous customers generate immediate savings without draining IT or technology budget resources. Many of these customers are now using realized savings and their newly acquired best practices to expand, develop, and fund ongoing sourcing improvements.

Category-in-a-Box enables companies to conduct sourcing events in a hosted on-demand fashion. Sourcing professionals can choose from a large number of category templates, designed and built by sourcing practitioners. Whether utilizing a template for print and packaging, strategic ingredients and components, MRO, services or capital equipment, users have the ability to apply just a few or every one of the many pre-existing cost model components. Either approach offers a foundation for effective sourcing decisions, while considering dynamic business rules and demanding, company-specific supply constraints.

"Category-in-a-Box promotes and enhances inter-enterprise collaboration to respond effectively to dynamic business rules and demanding supply constraints," said Mark Grefer, executive vice president of sales, marketing and strategic alliances for MindFlow. "We remain committed to helping global companies improve operational effectiveness and impact margins."

Category-in-a-Box is an enterprise-friendly solution that eliminates the need for software installation and quickly delivers the necessary sourcing workbench and framework for targeted categories. MindFlow's newest offering enables sourcing professionals to:

· Rationalize the supply base and consolidate the SKU base without impacting product offerings

Participate in fact-based negotiations using key cost drivers as the basis for discussion

· Ensure supply chain performance using balanced scorecards and common evaluation criteria

· Understand the trade-offs between qualitative factors, such as quality and risk

· Leverage supplier cost economics and multi-item bundling efficiencies

· Analyze alternate product, technology, and packaging opportunities

· Analyze part/supplier substitution and the impact on the supply chain

· Support target costing and category cost modeling

Category-in-a-Box is the most effective sourcing analytic platform available, capable of handling simple to advanced sourcing categories. It offers supply chain and sourcing teams patented technologies and leading optimization analytics to ensure superior performance and improved competitive advantage.

About MindFlow Technologies

MindFlow Technologies helps companies save time, save money and reduce risk with leading Strategic Sourcing applications. Large and small companies accelerate e-sourcing initiatives with MindFlow's complete sourcing automation, essential decision intelligence and deep domain, category expertise. The MindFlow Sourcing Suite(tm) is the premier end-to-end sourcing platform - comprehensive spend analysis, event management, sourcing analysis, supplier development, contract management, performance reporting and sourcing compliance. In close partnership with marquee customers, MindFlow has sourced billions of dollars in direct and indirect categories and enabled many millions of dollars in cost reductions. MindFlow Technologies headquarters is located at 6504 International Parkway, Plano, Texas. For more information, visit www.mindflow.com or contact:

Media Contact: Diane Murray

Email: diane.murray@mindflow.com